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operation in four hours after ; strengthening 

 your injection v/ith two ounces of lenitrve 

 electuary, and three ounces of Glauber salts, 

 both bemg dissolved in the gruel. This will 

 produce certain evacuations, as the first by 

 its retention w^U have relaxed the indurated 

 contents of the intestines, and rendered them 

 ready for immediate expulsion, by the active 

 power of the additional stimulants here pre- 

 scribed. In two or three hours after such 

 evacuations (or sooner if seemingly requisite) 

 let a mash of scalded bran be placed in the 

 manirer, to wliich, if he refuses, a handful of 

 oats may be added by way of inducement t 

 if still dechned, let them be removed, and a 

 small quantity of very sweet hay left in the 

 rack. Let liim be gently rubbed over, mo- 

 derately clothed, and well littered up with 

 clean dry straw, after giving him one ounce 

 of nitre dissolved in a small draught of w^arm 

 water, slightly impregnated with a proportion 

 of thin gruel. 



Previous to farther directions for the 

 treatment of fevers, or instructions for the 

 preparation of medicine, it becomes una- 

 voidably necessary to say something upon 

 the quality and indiscriminate use of that. 



